The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-12-16
A REPUBLICAN MEET
A Move to Reorganize the
Clubs Of the Country.
THE PLATFORM TO STAND UPON
They Propose to Say to the Saloon,
"Be 70 Removed From Poll
ties'- Other News Notes
Republican Club Convention

Republican Club Convention
NEW YORK, December 15.-Fhe First
National Club convention was called to
order at IL o'clock, about 1900 dele
gates from nearly all the States and
Territories in the Union being present
After the reading of the call. James P.
Foster, president of the Republican
! Club of New York, welcomed the dele
gates.
Mr.. Foster, in she course of his re-
marks, outlined the purpose of the
meeting, as follows: We propose to oc-
gsnize to &C out and beyond the indi-
| vidual, in order that we may work for
some end and some principle higher
and broader than single maR. Hence
we have by common consent agreed 10
that just and only true rHle, that
this convention shall not name,
recommend or nominate any can
didste for. Office. We propose al
organization whereby the teaching
of the value OF tariff 10 pretect the
Industries of the land may be readily
and quickly disseminated in plain
| language, 20 be understood by wage
earners and wage-psyers; tariff high
enough to reduce the surplus and 10
give employment to our citizens to
ensure market for oar goods, and
living to WoDkingmen better than the
pauper labor of Europe, has ever
known. We propose an organization
that shall discountenance and put TO
| shame those personal attacks upon
| candidates, where private character
and home life are basely assailed, and
public scandal for Political ends IN
Justly created. We propose an organi-
cation that shall say to the saloon, BE
We removed from politics" (Applause)
You who create paupeEs and insanity
and criminals shall no longer WELD the
power of government IN this land.
This then is the mission of the urgani-
cation.
At1.2O pm. after long contest in
volying a call of the roll. the conven-
ton chose Hon. Daniel j. Ryan, of
Ohio, temporary chairman by q vote of
159 to 154 over General Nathan Goff, of
West Virginia.
Judge Ryan, on taking the chair,
said: 1--WE are here to-day to reor-
ganize the clubs of the county into
permanent organization. We are here
| to boom the Republican party, and not
any one in it. We are here on a most
important business occasion. Believing
we must get down to business at once,
/ shall now ask your pleasure"
A number of secretaries were chosen
and vice president for each State was
selected. This was slow work and the
convention adjourned till tomorrow
morning at 10 o'clock.
This evening the club held a public
neeting in the Cooper Union. Hon.
j. P. Lynch, a coiored orator, of Mis-
sissippi, said he was here TO speak on
the suppression of the coIored vote in
the south. by form of law"
but morally he has no more
right there than he has to
the throne of Great Britain.
Cleveland could no mora get thei cleo
toral votes OF Mississippi, Louisiana
and South Carolina, than he could
those of Pennsylvania, Vermont and
| Ohio. There are over 10000 more
colored men than white in Mississippi.
| No less than one-third of the whites
vote the Republican ticket, and no
more than one-tenth of the blacks vote
the Democratic ticket, yet the State is
! always surely Democratic. They go
through the forms of election down
there, but as soon as the Democratic
conventions are over, the polls are
closed. Sometimes there is difficulty in
getting Democrats to falsify the returns.
When frustrated this way, they some
times resort to violence. These frauds are
perpetrated mainly because the general
sentiment OF the country tolerates
them. Until the people of the north
get their eyes open, these things will
continue in the SOUTH The speakers
idea of remedy was to reduce the rep
resentation of the Southern States.
Then, if colored men could not be rep
resented. they would have the satisfac-
! ton of knowing that the vote was not
| going to the enemy. Congressman rep
resent colored men who are virtually
DISTINGUISHED.
Speaker Noyes, of the Massachusetts,
House of Representatives, com
mended the address of Mr..
| Lynch. The tariff is of
small importance compared with the
question of human right. Cleveland
| has thrown the gauntlet into the arena,
and Republicans will quickly take it up.
| The President issued a proclamation
| that had in it platform of the party
and q citizen across the water criticized
| it (great cheering), and it spread over
the world, giving 1t many readers where
it only would have had one. We are not
here to designate candidate, but ne
thought events had designated who ne
next candidate would be. Aletter from
John 7. Wise. of Virginia, did not
speak hopefully of the Virginia Repub-
iican vote.
Hon. John Dalziell, of Pennsylvania
| dwelt principally upon the tariff. He
attributed the surplus and many other
! ills to the internal revenue.
Omen Defiance